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Political Commentator
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Political Commentator
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Political Commentator
As Donald Trump headed back to Mar a Lago for yet another golfing vacation after crashing the American economy again this past week, he was taking questions from the press and got smacked in the face by a microphone here. Watch to watch as that happen.
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Pharmaceutical Representative
Mr. President, obviously you're, you're concerned about the situation in Gaza. What are the hopes now to get the hospitals back?
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Television Host
She just became a big story tonight, right?
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Political Commentator
Yes, sir.
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Television Host
Did you see that?
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Political Commentator
Yeah. That's called karma. At the same time that was happening, there were protests by veterans across the country, but also in front of the VA Medical center in St. Louis. I want you to watch it. Shout out to the veterans who are protesting here. Play this clip. Trump and Musk have got to go. Trump and Musk have got to go. Let's also talk about the five things that Donald Trump did this week. You know how Elon Musk is demanding that the federal workers provide the list of five things or else. Take a look. Donald Trump tanked the stock market some more. He hosted a Tesla product placement event at the White House. He said that CNN and MSNBC are illegal in front of the Department of Justice. During that same press conference he held at the Department of Justice, he also praised the January 6th insurrectionist at the DOJ kind of main grand room. He got hit with a microphone, which you just saw, and then he went to play golf even more. Lots of people are expecting that we're either already in a recession or we're heading into a great recession or even a depression as a result of Trump's chaotic and disastrous economic policies. If you even want to call him making posts on social media policy. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says the U.S. recession odds are now nearing 50%. By the way, do you remember those headlines like the one from Business Insider heading into 2025 with the Trump regime where they said a 0% chance of a recession? Remember the headlines when former President Biden was taking office and business journals or business newspaper papers like Bloomberg were saying 100% chance of recession and that the 100% chance was a massive blow to then President Biden and then Biden navigated out of that. There was no recession. There was a soft landing and the economy was actually booming. Just take a look at the market stock tumbles last week. They call it a correction, but I call it a crash as investors sour on Donald Trump. If you looked at your 401ks or your pensions or whatever over the past few weeks, it was a disastrous thing to look at. It seems like every day Donald Trump would wake up, post something crazy and the markets would tank. Right now we're seeing from University of Michigan, which takes the consumer sentiment surveys. It's the worst consumer sentiment since 2022. Also, it is the worst University of Michigan inflation expectations since 1993. But the big news in the University of Michigan data was not just the inflation expectations. If you look what people are saying about jobs market, it's expected change in unemployment. People's views of the expected change in unemployment is the worst since the 2008 Great Recession and it's perhaps even getting worse than that. But Donald Trump's regime has to have on fox, their propaganda network, Kellyanne Conway, who says consumer confidence is up because what's down is up. What's up is down. War is peace. Yeah, I think we've heard that from 1984. Here, play this clip.
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News Anchor
Go down, consumer confidence going up. Everything is turning up. Trump.
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Political Commentator
And I mean everything she says is just absolutely false. Those are those alternative facts. Trump, meanwhile, is sending out surveys like this to his supporters on his email list. Do you still support Doge? I'm launching the presidential fundraising blitz before my mid month fundraising deadline. And it's like, please help me, Ben. I need money for my fundraising blitz. Fundraising for what? And as you're destroying even your own supporters pensions and 401ks and as you haven't done anything you promise, prices are up, housing is less affordable as you screw the economy, you're fundraising, you're asking for money. For you who's enriched himself billions of dollars since you've taken office. As I was mentioning before, Donald Trump on Friday held that press conference inside the Department of Justice in their grand ballroom. And Donald Trump again was mist. Justified, stupefied by the word groceries. Groceries. He's like, that's a, that's an old fashioned word. Groceries. Here, play this clip.
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Television Host
All things that we wanted to do because then everything else is going to be coming down. We want it to come down. We want bacon to come down. And groceries, a term I used to use, it's sort of an old fashioned term, but I used to use.
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Political Commentator
Then Donald Trump declares at the DOJ that CNN and MSNBC are illegal. Here, watch this.
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Television Host
And I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they're really corrupt and they're illegal. What they do is illegal. It makes no difference how big a victory I had. I can have the biggest victory in history. It makes.
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Political Commentator
Then Donald Trump brags at the DOJ about pardoning the January 6th insurrectionists who he calls political prisoners. Again, he's doing this at the DOJ. He's, he's making the DOJ prosecutors in D.C. who were involved even in the prosecution, if they haven't already been fired. But he's asking law and order people to watch him brag about letting on the street some of the most vile and despicable crooks, criminals, people who beat cops, freaking terrorists, a lot of them. But here's what he has to say. Play this clip.
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Television Host
Please convict me. Don't say that I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated. We removed the senior FBI officials who misdirected resources to send SWAT teams after grandmothers and J6 hostages.
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Political Commentator
And it was then the propaganda state regime network known as Fox. Brings on Sean Duffy, Donald Trump's Secretary of Transportation who got famous on Real World Road Rules Challenge a few decades ago. That's how he made a name for himself. It's the reality show, dystopian reality show presidency. And here he keeps talking. There's all these plane issues. I remember a plane caught on fire in the past two days as well in Denver. He's like, we're looking into this dei. I think it's the. We got it. We got to look closer. There must be all this DEI everywhere. Just so, just so stupid here. Play this clip.
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Government Official
We should do an investigation. I want to know, are there DI practices still in place? Because the president has been incredibly clear. He wants the best and the brightest air traffic controllers controlling our skies. I agree with him on that. So we're going to do an OIG investigation. We're going to have a law, we're working with a law firm who's going to do an independent investigation into our air traffic control system. And if there is any issues with regard to dei, anything other than the best and the brightest, I'm going to be transparent. I'll come back on your show. Harris secretary Sean Duffy.
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News Anchor
Thank you.
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Government Official
Thank you.
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Political Commentator
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News Anchor
We've seen worries about growth. I know you said you're not expecting a recession, but investors are on edge over the possibility of a recession this year after the Atlanta Federal Reserve said that it's predicting a 2.4% contraction in the first quarter. And of course, President Trump would not.
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Television Host
Wait, wait, wait. Say that again. A what?
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News Anchor
A what? The Atlantic contraction. Correct, Correct. First.
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Television Host
Okay, right here, right here, right now. Right here, right now. That is ridiculous.
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News Anchor
Okay. Have you spoken to the president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve? Have you told the Atlanta. Have you told. Have you told the Atlanta Fed that you say it's ridiculous because they're out with this contraction prediction for the. And I know that you and President Trump are handed a mess. I'm not, I'm not arguing that. But now we're talking about recession. And I asked President Trump about it this week and he didn't say no.
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Political Commentator
Here's take a look as well. The red flags popping up at supermarkets across Canada as they continue to boycott all things American. As they boycott American tourism, they're indicating which are Canadian made products. Also yesterday was the swearing in of the new Prime Minister, Mark Carney. Here's what he had to say. Let's play it.
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American Idol Contestant
We will never, ever in any way, shape or form be part of the United States. America is not Canada. Look at the ceremony. We just have. You could not have had that ceremony. You would not have that ceremony in America. Look at the cabinet behind me. You would not have that cabinet in America. You do not have that cabinet in America. We are very fundamentally different country.
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Political Commentator
And Donald Trump continues to talk about America conquering Canada. Canada becoming the 51st state. Oh, Canada becoming an anthem of the state in the United States. I mean, just the most heinous and despicable things. Shout out, by the way, to all of our Canadian supporters, we here at the Midas Touch Network and frankly, more Americans than people who support Trump stand in solidarity with you. Do your thing. If you gotta boycott tourism, some of you got to boycott American products to stand up to the Trump regime. Do what you got to do. We totally understand what you're going through. And we don't support the attacks on your sovereignty. It is despicable, despicable stuff by the Trump regime. The Trump regime continues to suck up to Vladimir Putin. First thing yesterday morning, Donald Trump literally posted verbatim Putin propaganda. He posted a total lie saying that that Ukrainian troops were surrounded by Russian forces who are about to massacre the Ukrainian troops. And then Ukraine had to respond, though this is Putin propaganda. Putin's giving you false information. There's been no material change on the battlefield. Where Russia previously said that it would be able to take Kiev in three days, it wasn't able to. We've been discussing Russia's inability to take the territories that it's been trying to Ukraine courageously pushing back against Russia. Donald Trump literally regurgitating those Putin talking points and then basically saying, so as a result, that's why, you know, we think Ukraine needs to give up all of this stuff in order to have a ceasefire. And Ukraine said, look, we're willing to have a ceasefire, but we retreat it, treat us like a sovereign nation, and we want security guarantees to make sure it's meeting and peaceful. Putin doesn't want a cease fire. And on Russian propaganda tv, their version of Fox, their hosts are basically saying, here's our response to your cease fire. Why would we want to agree to a cease fire? That's what we're seeing, you know, out. Out there as well. Also, it is worth noting that the Doge team working at the Social Security Administration appears to be amongst the largest DOGE units deployed to any governmental agency. We know that the Trump regime is firing lots of people who work in the Social Security Administration office. And we know that Elon Musk has said Social Security is a Ponzi scheme from the Republican budget. They're getting $880 billion of Medicaid. We know that they're firing, you know, all of these veterans, all of these government workers. And, you know, one of the things, though, that we're going to see what the outcome ultimately is. But two different federal judges, one in a federal court in Maryland, another in a federal court in the Northern District of California, ruled that Trump's terminations of these probationary employees, the tens of thousands who Trump fired, those were unlawful terminations. And both of these courts, in kind of somewhat overlapping consensual circles, kind of orders, said that these probationary employees need to be rehired by the Trump regime, which the Trump regime saying, no, we fired them. We want these government workers gone. We try to get rid of them. And the federal courts are saying, nope, they have to be rehired. You didn't conduct a reduction in force analysis and rif, and you. And you lied and defamed these workers and said you were firing them for cause. You can't just lie and defame and say you fired people for cause for not doing their job, who are doing their job. So bring them back. And ultimately, if you want to fire them, you have to go through the process and actually provide cause and justification for what you're doing. So we'll keep you posted with that and more. Trump's now on vacation again at taxpayer expense. Every time he does this, it costs millions and millions of dollars. And that's why I've showed you this data before. Um, but last month, there was more federal spending at $603 billion than any month in the history of the United States of America. So for all that Doge was saying, we're doing this, that, and the other thing, which was all lies, more federal government spending last month than ever than any month in former President Biden's administration as well. So it's all bs. Anyway, we'll keep you posted throughout the day. Hit subscribe let's get to 5 million subscribers and thanks for watching. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas plus substack for ad free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now@midasplus.com.
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